Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl." — 1 Kings 4:23 (ASV)
Harts ... - The exact kinds of wild land animals intended here are very uncertain. Perhaps it would be best to translate this as “wild-goats, gazelles, and wild oxen,” which abounded in the wilder parts of Syria, from where Solomon would be supplied. (See 1 Kings 4:24.) (The Yahmur, or “roebuck,” gives its name to a valley in a wooded district south of Carmel (Conder).) The use of game at the royal banquets of Assyria appears in the sculptures.